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Listen: Rich Schreibstein, photographing the local landscape

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they are a photographer, says Rich Schreibstein. “A phone doesn’t make you a photographer anymore than it makes you an orator,” says Schreibstein. “What you are is a picture-taker.” Schreibstein, of Altamont, takes his photography seriously.

Haines takes the reins from Miller as Altamont fire chief

by Sean Mulkerrin

Just 33 years old, Kyle Haines will be the next chief of the Altamont Fire Department on Jan. 1. 

Remembering a kindergartner killed by her mother 

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

The Guilderland school district has learned from painful experience that, in the space of 20 years, the identity of a person honored by a memorial may be lost to current faculty, staff, and students.

Latest shared-services proposal projects $3.2M more in savings

by Sean Mulkerrin

The third phase of Albany County’s proposed shared-services plan could save as much as $7 million in the long-term. 

Governors Motor Inn

Governors Motor Inn has a buyer at $150K

Store Away Self Storage has made an agreement with the land bank to buy the Governors Motor Inn, pending approval from the town. 

Hiawatha Trails hits possible fire-code snag 

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair 

State fire code calls for two separate entrances into a site with multi-residential complexes that have more than 200 units. 

Trauma to triumph: Kenneth’s Army recognized for advocacy

by Noah Zweifel

On Dec. 4, Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara will honor East Berne resident M. Claire Ansbro-Ingalls as a woman of distinction for her work with Kenneth’s Army, an organization that fights against child abuse and other societal ills.

Westerlo appoints new assessor in emergency meeting

by Noah Zweifel

After its first appointee declined the position because he could not attend the required office hours, Westerlo has appointed Garth Slocum to replace Peter Hotaling as sole assessor.

Amedore won’t seek re-election

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

“I never intended to be a career politician,” Republican Senator George Amedore told The Enterprise this week after announcing on Friday that he won’t run for re-election in 2020.

Amedore, who is 50, served in the State Assembly for six years, until 2012, and has represented District 46 in the State Senate since 2014.

New Rensselaerville Library Director: “It’s quite providential”

by Noah Zweifel

The Rensselaerville Library’s new director, Heidemarie Carle, describes the opportunity to serve the Hilltowns community with the experience she’s built up over decades with non-profit and government organizations as “providential.”

Dutch Mill Acres proposed for Carman Road

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair 

Pickleball courts, a pool, and a clubhouse are among the amenities proposed for a new residential development on Carman Road in Guilderland.

Photo: First major snowfall of the season

On Monday morning, after the season’s first major storm dumped a foot and a half of snow in Altamont, Rhonda Flansburg cleared a path to her Re-Nue Spa on Maple Avenue. The snow banks were nearly half as tall as the 5 foot, 1 inch red-haired dynamo. Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency for seven counties, including Albany, deploying 300 members of the National Guard to help with snow removal.

Chase Bank proposed for corner of routes 20 and 155

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair

A traffic analysis says a drive-in bank would generate fewer trips than the current conditions. 

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